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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1848), 1858-12-03

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m lilii HA AnrfSV IliP S3 -UK COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1858. NUMBER 87. VOLUME XXII. THE JOURNAL: li PUHMIHED , DAILY, TRI-WEKKI.Y AND WEEKLY, BY COOKE A MILLERS. Terms Invariably in Advance. Daily, $0 00 per year. " By the Currier, por week, 12'4cts. Tm-Wr.Ki.r, 3 00 per year. Weekly, - ' 1 U " TERMS OF ADVEIITI8INO BY THE SQUARE. (TIM LINKS OR LM6 MAKB A SQUARE.) One aquar 1 year, J19 00 One " 9 monllie, 12 00 One " 6 months, 10 00 One " S months, 8 00 One " 2 ntontlu, 6 60 One " 1 mouth, 4 SO One square 3 weeks, Ono " 2 weeks, One " 1 week, One " 3 dsys, One " 2 clays, One " 1 day, 3 RO 3 00 1 60 1 00 7S 60 Displayed Advertisements half more tlian the above rates. Advertisements leaded and placed n the column of Spe-Clal Notices, dovblt the ordinary rata. All notices required to be published by law, legal rates. 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The editorial charge of the paper has been assumed by Henry D. Cooke, who has engaged the service of experi enced and competent assistants In that department. It Is the design of the publishers to make The Journal a faithful, fearless and reliable exponent of Republican sentiment In Ohio and It Is hoped that their efforts will meet with liberal encouragement from tin friends of Free Labor throughout the State. That It may be worthy, In all respects, of their hearty support, Its conductors will con- tantly aim, not only to reflect and advocate Republican principles and measures, but to present In Its columns com plete and reliable Information on all questions of State and National Politics. Full reports of the proceedings of the Ohio Legislature, and a daily telegraphic synopsis of the debates In Congress, will be furnished, during the sessions of those bodies. 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Will our friends aid us In procuring subscribers and clubs ? Address all orders to COOKE A. MILLERS, Publishers, Columbus, Ohio. MASOMC CALENDAR. . STATED MEETINGS. COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 30 Second and Fourth Tubs- days. W. B. Fat, Sec'y. W. B. Thrall, W. M. MAGNOLIA LODGE, Jfo. 20 First and third Tuesdays. L. O. Thrall, Sec'y. Tuos. sparrow, w. m, OHIO CHAPTER, No. 12 First Saturday In eaeh mo. A. B. Robinson, Sec'y. amasa jones, li. r, COI.tlMIHIS COUNCIL. No. 8 First Friday in each month. O.Wilson, Sec'y. A. B. Robinson, T. I. G. M. MT. VERNON ENCAMPMENT, No. 1 Last Thnrsdny In each mo. A. B. Robinson, llee. w. B. thrall, u.u I. O.O. F. CALENDAR. STATED MEETINGS. COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 9 Meet Monday evening, Rrvnv I.nTT. N.O. Jab. N. HoWLE, SeC'V. CENTRAL LODGE, No. 23 Meets Thursday evening. F. .1 LEsqnr.Rr.ux, N.O. JOS. MOCK, oec y. EXCELSIOR LODGE, No. 14') Meets Wednesday even, h. A nniiiiMAW. N.O. J. A. Montgomery, Sec'y. CAPITOL LODGE. No. 334 Meets Friday evening. L a Tiiitu. K I). M. M. Powers. Sec'y. CA 1'ITOL ENCA MPMENT, No. Meets every Tuesday evening. Haury Tarbill, U.l Jos. iiowdall, scnue JAMES S. AUSTIN, Att'y at Law and Mary Public COLUMBUS, OHIO, At office of P. B. & J as. A. Wilcox, No. T South High St, nuv24 S. W. ANDREWS, ATTOBNEY .A.T LAW, Office No. 3 Johnson Building, High Street, - - COLUMBUS, OHIO. nov'29 ly ' ALLEN G. TIllRMAN, Attorney txt TLaciwr, COLUMBUS, OHIO, fe20 Office on High street, lietwin Friend and Mound. A. B. BUTTLES, Attorney zvxaci Counsol" OA 1 1 For tho present at the Clerk's Office. felO R. E. CHAMPION, Soalor in. Coal tSo Colio Tard and Office near Railroad Depot, no20 COLVMKVS, OHIO. DAILY JOURNAL. to the painting of filial and parental love, and the affairs of ono family. In his latost work, however, all the excellen cies of Bulwer's genius appear. We think that in the fullness of time, which tests everything, this will take rank next to Wilhelm Melstor. Nay in some things, it is more catholio than the book of the great old heathen. Without ever losing his self-poise, the author comes nearer to you than Goethe docs, whose majostie wisdom and classic repose do not awaken emotion so of ten as profound admiration. The comparison, of even Bulwer with Goetho, however, isdangerous. Of courso, though the plot is one of doop in terest, "What will Ho do with It" is to be read less for the sake of that, than for its abundant philosophy, and cunning delineation and elaboration of character. There is nothing, it seems to us, wanting in the verisimilitude and life-likeness of tho principal people of this novel. If Alban Morley, or Guy Darrell, or Lionel Houghton, or Gentleman Waife, or his villain- son, or grim Arabella Crane it any ot these should step out of the book and become a living presence before us, "Wc should not think It to be strange." It by no means detracts from tho probability of these people that they pass through adven tures, and trials, and sorrows, little known to the common lot. We rather realize them the more readily for that, and say merely, "This is Guy Darrell, (as.he passes) the strange genius, who flung away the prospect of tho most brilliant career, and lives a rccluso at Fawley." Even our knowledge of Dorrell's nobleness and gcntlcmanhood, does not prevent us from com passionating his eccentricities, just as we pity those of men out of books. Morley is a fully developed type of character which Bulwer has always loved to depict. A gentle, well-natured man of the world. Rich, and therefore only industrous and shrewd for others. Gifted, but indolently elegant. Wise in tho world, but a believer in mon. A kind, true friend, with love for his friends almost as strong as passion, which he seems not to have known. Hj is akin to Sallust, in "Tho Last Days of Pompei," to Talbot in "Tho Disowned," to Fanny Trovanion's husband in "Tho Caxtons," and distantly to Harley L'Eitrange in "My Novel." ' Gentleman Waife, the witty, wise old stroller, who is introduced to the rentier as a per former in Mr. Rugge's wandering Theatre, wins at first our liking, and with the discovery of his past career, our reverence and love. He is one of the most noble and elevating characters that any poet (for Bulwer justly contends that the great novelist is a poet) has created. In Sophy, Lady Montfort, Lady Carr Vipont, we have real women. Dickens draws very nice little girls, they say; the ladies all deny that Thackeray's Becky Sharps and Amelias are fair types of their sex. It is Bulwer alone, of tho three great English novelists, who can depict Women, and not nice little girls, imbe ciles or wretches. To our thinking, however, the very hero of the book is that handsome, strong, wicked, soul less brute, Jasper Losely. The depravity of this man, which works out, without actual disaster befalling him, its own natural and terrible pun ishment, is as utter and as probable as that of Iago.' One doesn t have tho uncomforta ble consciousness of being related to Bulwer's rascals as to Thackeray's; nor are they impossi bly hideous monsters like those of Dickons. Yet, they are as truly men as the first, and as hate ful as the last. Jasper is presented early in tho book, as gay, frivolous, treacherous, handsomo, brave and daring rogue. His magnificent physique and dashing mmnor, make him to bo feared and adored of tho women ; and his iron constitution enables him to live a life of the most thorough and abandoned dissipation. Proud, barbarously vain and shallow, and with- out wealth, ho must of course maintain himself as a chioelier d Industrie. His selfishness is cruel. his unscrupulousnoss and effrontery porfect, Over this dangerous anthopophagon, a grim. cold woman has influence (from causes after. wards revealed.) It is to Arabella Crane goes in his sorest noed. It is she who shelters and feeds him, and gives him money, only to bo abandoned as soon as possible. Her pursuit of The engraving, "Tbey Love," might be better than it is. ... Longlcy & Bros., 108 Vine street, Cincinnati. $2.00 a year. ' ' . The Eclectic Magazine. Conducted on the plan of Littcll's Living Age, this Magazine is hardly less successful the variety is great, and the selections are always excellent taste. From all the great English periodicals are gleaned their best articles, and the reader meets here just such things as he ould have chosen for perusal from the wide nge of literature laid under contribution. The table of contents for tho December number (which is embellished with a steel-engraving likoness of Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, D. D.,) pre sents fourteen articles. W. S. Bidwell, No. 6 Bcekman street, New York. $3.00 a year. Student and Schoolmate. Frank Forrester greets his little friends with very pleasant number for the Christmas month. Published bv James Robinson & Co., 119 Washington street, Boston. $1.00 a year. HI. C. LILLEY, Boolt-Blnder, AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER, High street, between Broad and Cay sis., m,18 COlVMnVS, OHIO. O. II. LATIMER, No. 236 High Street, between Rich and Friend, KEErS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE ASSORTMENT of Cnkes, Crackers, Breads, Fresh Oysters, Fruits, Nuts, and Family Groceries. Also, a largo stock of Candles and choice Confectionery. Bsy-filvo me a call, and buy a prime article cheap. nov20 (m JOHN W. RAKER, REAL ESTATE BROKER, Office In the Odeon Building, Columbus, Ohio, WILL DEVOTE A TOnTION OF HIS TIME TO Buying and Helling Property fur others, Negotiating Loans anil Making Collections, In Franklin and adjoining Counties, on the most lllwral terms. Letters addrosecd, with postage stamp inclosed, will receive prompt attention. Reference Any citl7.cn of Columbus. ja23 CTenglo House, High Street, Mice Rich and Friend, Columlmi, Ohio, J. NAGLE, Proprietor. IN SOLICITING THE rATRONAOE OF THE rUD-LIO, the Proprietor would call attention to the fact that tho house has been put In thorough repair, and fitted up in a manner to warrant him In saying that customers will find his accommodations, in all rosiects, unexceptionable. JalMly RANDALL & ASTON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In UooliH find Sta-tioxiox-y BLANK BOOKS, WALL AND WINDOW l'ArERS, OIL PAINTINGS, LITHOGRAPHS AND ENGRAVINGS, WINDOW SHADES, CORNICES AND FIXTURES, BUFF AND GREEN HOLLANDS, GILT AND ROSEWOOD MOULDINGS. tfsTFRAMES on hand and made to order. sWPAPERS of nlmost overy description. And an endless variety of FANCY. AND USEFUL ARTICLES for Ladles and Uentlemen, all of which will bo enld very low for CASH, at Whiting's old stand, No. 09 High street, Columbin, Hiiro. mural LITERARY MATTERS. "Peter," writing to theN. Y. Post from Boston, makes this pleasant mention of the Atlantic: The Atlantic Monthly is to commence the new year witn nigh Hopes, ana alter lourtecn monins of unequivocal success. Among the pleasant things connected therewith is tho Atlantic Club, composed of the contributors to the Monthly who meet once a month over one ot barker b best dinners, and enjoy themselves in a way becoming modern Athenians. Some inkling of the it and wisdom which finds the daylight, around the Club's ample mahogany, may bo gathered from a mention of the names or Lmerson, Low. ell and Holmes, as constant attendants upon Its meetings. Another recently established club, which also dines monthly, is the' Adirondao, composed of members of that famous party which encamped last summer among the woody mountains of northern New York. It is rumored that fcmer- son's unfortunate gun has deprived Longfellow of admission to this select and agreeable circle. This loss is somewhat compensated for by the success of his Miles Standish, which is already up among the twenty-fifth thousand. Let the makers of English hexameters take courage; and the ghost of Edgar A. Foe retire to oblivion. Blackwood's Magazine. We have received from Leonard Scott & Co.' New York, the November number of this peri odical, whose infinite variety, long custom has not stated. The table of contents is as follows: Buckle's History of Civilization; What will He do with It? Edward Irving; The Light of the Hearth; Cherbourg; Lord Canning's Reply to the Ellenborough Dispatch. We have not had time to look thoroughl y at all these papers; yielding our first attention to BULWER'S "WflAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?" Which has nearly two years' claim upon our intc.cst. It has been said (and not without reason,) of tho later novels of Dickens, that they fall fur below his earlier works. Tho samo criticism has been mado upon Thackeray ; and each of these writers finds his most perilous present ri val in reputation already achieved. Tho ad-mircrsof the author of "Pendennis" and "Vanity Fair," cannot with safety to their admiration, comparo his "Virginians" with those works; and it is to be granted by the most ar dent lover (for that is the word,) of Dickens, that "Bleak House," and "Littlo Dorrit" have vastly moreof his peculiar faults, and less of him, her attempts to rescue him, and turn him his peculiar excellencies, thnn "David Copper- from his mad careor, her persistent and unwea- field," or "The Old Curiosity Shop," or "Barna- by Rudgo." In Bulwer. however, there is no wane, but rather steady growth of a genius, second only, we are tempted to say, to that of Goethe. His early efforts gave no bright promise of purity or greatness. They were those of a clevor, schol arly and studious man, who was deemed rather wicked than otherwise, and whoso writings were thought to be dangerously corrupt. It was once almost an uncomfortable thing to be a lover of them; and they were always mentioned by moral friends, who ndvised young people not to read novels. We do not say these opinions wcro wrong; for in spite of the authors ingen ious defense, we havo ever thought "Paul Clif ford" an evil book: and "Tho Roue"' is entirely vicious. But with the publication of each suc ceeding work, tho genius of Bulwer has seemed to grow purer and better and stronger. "The stream whoso waters were so muddy at th first," says our British reviewer of Gcorgo Snnd's Autobiography, "has run itself clear and sweet at lust." "Tho Disowned," was better than any novel which had preceded it from the same pen, and in "Tho Coxtons," the tendercst and loftiest MRS. llOPPERTON, HAS OPENED A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF Parisian Millinery, Which was bought at tho lowest rash price : and a richer and more varied ossorlnmnt of FEATHERS, FLOWERS CAPS, HKAD-DltESSES, HAIR ORNAMENTS AND PINS, etc., never before olfered tu the Ladies of Columbus. Also, Embroideries very cheap. Victoria Self Adjusting Correts, Natural Hair Bands, Braids, Wigs and Curls. All Orders Attended to With Neatness and Elegance, MRS. nOPTERTON, grateful for past favors, solicits B turo patronage. tcpli feelings of our nature aro appealed to and touched. How beautiful is the love of Pisistrutus and his father! how noblo tho character of tho old sol dier uuelo! how rare the mothorly sweetness of the gentlo scholar's wife! The morality of tho book is faultless. Its philosophy is deep and subtle. Its poetry is passionate and genuine. Though most of the people in "Tho Caxtons" pass through sufferings far more severe than thoso appointed for most of us, yet tho book is not a bad ono, for its lesson is tho true Christian lesson: endurance of misfortune and grief, and "final triumph over Bclf. No one ever rose a worso man from tho perusal of "Tho Cox-ton's," and no one over rend it without enlargement of his thoughts and affections. In "My Novel, or, Tho Varieties of English Life," tho samo gold is mined, but tho voins of tho treasure run in diverse and widor directions. It is moro a book of the world than "The Caxtons," which without being that intolerable thing, a domcstio novel, is much devoted ricd kindness, make him halo and fear her. Ho goes to her for aid with the utmost reluc tance, and escapes from hor benevolenc with delight. It would bo beyond our pre sent purposo to trace the steps of Jasper Losely down to the low depths of misery and degradation to which he hurries. Tho in cvitablo consequences of his misdeeds come up on him. His manly beauty passes away; slow diseaso fastens upon his stalwart frame; th arts by which he lived on others fail him, and he becomes a desperate ruffian, as he was a hopeful ruflian before. Through all, tho goodness o the grim, cold woman pursues him. She is truly to him ono of the Eumcnides, as the old Athenians called the furies. It is easy to guess tho fate that finally awaits hi in, and the closing chapters in the Blackwood before us leave us in no anxiety about him. Meanwhile, the story continues, though "Wh; will Ho do with It," is a question to which fore gone chapters have already indicated replies, Guy Darrell must inevitably marry Lady Montfort; Lionel will wed Sophy; Colonel Morley will havo his chair at the fircsido of his fricn and for Waife is reserved the accustomed happi ncss of good people in novels. Jasper Losely already shudders on the brink of dissolution. We freely confess, however, that wo don't know what Arabella Crane "will do with it." Ohio Journal of Education. December number of this journal closes tho seventh volume; and in no former year, has it been so successfully conducted as in that just passed. It richly deserves tho encouragement and support of the teachers of Ohio, and of our citizens. Tho number opens with a paper on "Comets and their Chronology," from the distinguished and eccentric Astronomer, Daniel Vauglmn ; which is followed by nino excellent articles from different sources. The editorial department is not less creditablo and attractive. he The Lonlsvllle Journal on Republicanism. Tho Louisville Journal, in a long article on the subject of a combination of the elements of opposition to the Democratic party, expresses it self in very positive terms, to the following pur port. We have not space for the entire article, but quote its salient points. After premising that "there are two things which it is of the last importance that the Republicans of the North should opportunely realize, for their own sako, as well as for the sake of the nation," it proceeds to specify 1st. That nothing less t!:an a union of tho Opposition can defeat the Democracy in 1800. 2d. That neithor Mr. Seward nor any other Republican can unite tho Opposition. The Journal manifests great confidence in the assumption that both these propositions are in- sputable; and lest some of the Northern Re publicans should bo inclined to doubts, proceeds to demonstrate to its own satisfaction that the Republican party is not so strong now as it was in 1856, when it failed to elect its Presiden tial candidate It says in this connection: The political developments of the day all point to a union of the Democracy in I860. And tliev point unerringly, nooouy uouuis it. inu anti-Lecompton Democracy of the North and the Lecompton Democracy of the South will unquestionably rally with equal enthusiasm under the bapner unfurled by the nominee oi me Charleston Convention. The party will take the field as a unit. Everything is in resistless train for this issue. It is certain. Union for the sake of the spoils of the Union. Nothing t . . i t, can prevent it. cut me ueiuo-ruuy umra must inevitably rout a divided Opposition. It reouires no reasoning to establish this. The national contest ot loot put me point ncyonu all shadow of doubt. Tho Republican party was immeasurably stronger then than it is now, or ever will be again. It was stronger relatively by nearly half a million votes than it could possibly be in the struggle ot laou unuer tne most popular of its own leaders. And it was defeated in 1856. Most assuredly its discom fiture as a party in 1800 would be far more sig nal and thorough. Tho Democracy bearing down in solid phalant against the obstinate Republican division of the imposition would owoon not nnlv tlio entire South, but at least a l'"8 r .i.. Pnnawn;. Indiana den wagons Illinois, and California, to mention no other States, would fall betore its conquering tread as sure as fate. The united Democracy would triumph over tho divided Opposition without an effort. The Opposition must unite, or bo over thrown and annihilated. This tact is manitest. But neithor Mr. Seward nor any other Republi can can unite the Opposition. This is equally manifest. It is well to speak frankly. The Whigs and Americans of the nation can never co-operate with the Republicans as such. The thing is noliticallv impossible. It is folly to talk orthink of it. The Republicans must abandon or at all events pretermit their distinctive "one idea" before the Whigs and Amoncans ot tne country can act with them. In other words, a practicnl renunciation or adjournment of their peculiar . .. "v .r.!- -ff : tf aoma is tne necessary conumun oi umun ui the Opposition. This is a settled point. We osumo thore is no sensible man in the jNortn who will contest it. Tho Republican watchword must be relinquished. But what, would its professed relinquishment omountto under the leadership of Mr. Seward or any other Republican? What strength would tne lairest piattorm exort outsido of the Republican ranks with the name of a Republican floating above it. Not any. Not the slightest. JNo matter now conservative and national its terms mightbe, it would attract the confidence of none but Republicans. It would bo to all intents and purposes a Republican platform. Almost everybody except the Kepub-licans would shun or spurn it. Whether justly or not, it would be derided on every side as a transparent mockery, and rejected all but un- U it will only abandon its principles, desert its leaders, and place itself under their special di rection and protection. Says the Journal: The Republican party is not a body of knaves and fanatics. It is not a set of fools. The bulk of its members are personally upright, intelligent and conservative. It is composed for the most part of men who until the epoch or the repeal of the Missouri Compromise were the brave and even self-sacrificing defenders of the con stitutional rights of the South. It consists mainly of individuals who formed no small portion of the flower of the. old Whig and Democratic parties. Outraged by what they conceived to be a flagrant breach of faith on the part of the South, and fired by the aggressions which they fancied it foreshadowed, they, iu a moment of misguided zeal, cast aside established party relations, together with all the great political measures of the day, and rallied with vehement enthusiasm in opposition to the conjectural as saults of an imaginary adversary. IV e do not judge them harshly for the past. They may plead in their lavor the instincts or nature it not tho dictates of wisdom, lint the past is past. The experience ot two years lias taught them, not, indeed, that they arc at all incapable of defending the just rights of their own section if necessary, but that no nggression on those rights is really designod. The single end for which they were provoked to adjourn gravo questions of policy and unite, is answered. The isolated purpose of their temporary and pnrlinl combina tion is achieved. The object of their special array is accompli jhed. Their mission as Republicans is fulfilled. The article concludes with an appeal to Re publicans to abandon their distinctive organi zation and issues, and "to aid iu a feasible at tempt to rescue our institutions, from tho Vandal hands of tho Democracy-.'' We have some comments to make upon this singular article, which will be found in another column. For the Ohio State Joun Our National Road. Messrs. Editors: Plcaso allow me a small space in your paper, as I wish to call attention to the very bad condition of the National Road. Taking into view the vast amount of travel on this road; the enormous loads that are constant, ly passing, with the narrow tread of the wheels bearing those heavy burdens, we need not wonder that the road becomes rutted or channeled, by which the traveler is constantly annoyed, especially so on each turn-out to avoid collisions in meeting, and in overhauling and passing. To repair this channeling, much has been ex pended in piling on gravel in the center of the road until it has become too crowning, thus com pelling the travel to a very narrow space, thereby working direct injury to the road in hasten ing the channeling process. Under this state of things it is impossible to put, and to keep, any turnpike in good, smooth condition for comfortable traveling. , I have two suggestions to make for the better ment of this road, which are no less applicable to all turnpikes. As our portion of tho National Road is under the guardianship of our Legislature, I wish to appeal to our Franklin county members in particular, together with thoso persons who have this road in their keeping. As a half-way remedy in putting a stop to, or holding in check tho wholesale destruction of this road by channeling, 1 propose that all bur- or vehicles with narrow-tread wheels, such as are now used, and-with the present length of axle-tree, shall be charged with double the toll they are now taxed. 2. That all burden vehicles with narrow-tread wheels, hav ing axle-trees eight inches longer than those in common use, shall pay only half the toll now exacted. As an inducement to users of tho road to in crease the width of their tread, I would say that all burden wagons, with three-inch tire, should have one fourth deducted from the tolls I have proposed. My aim would be to divido burden wagons in to three equal classes, and to attain this by a dif ference in toll. Were our burden vehicles brought to this classification of equal numbers in each, 1 am of opinion that wo should have but little injury to this road by its wearing into channels; and if this cliunueling process was fully prevented, the needed repairs would not be one tenth they now are, besides we would havo a fourfold better road. My second suggestion, by which a complete remedy against rutted or channeled roads, is, to put a full atop to all burden vehicles with less than six inches tread ; this to bo done by a toll that shall work a prohibition. I traveled much on MoAdamizcd roads in England in 181U, and never saw on roads thore the least semblance of channeling; their whole surface was as smooth as the best new laid sidewalks in Columbus. There the heavy burden wagons have not less than twelve inches tread on their wheels, having threo streaks of tire on each wheel. Death of Robert Owen. The death of Robert Owen is an item of news by the Halifax steamer. This-celobrated politi cal theorist was born in Wales in 1771. At 7 yoarsof age he was usher, and at 0 underroas- tcr ol an elementary bchooi in ins native town. Next year he was in a grocery and draper's shop, and then proceeded to Stamford to a dra- -per s shop, supporting nlmseir tor lour years, when he went to London, where, in two years. he was offered the half partnership in the lucrative establishment he had joined, with the promise of tho wholo concern and adequate cap ital after a time; but he declined, and, at 18, became a partner in a cotton-spinning factory, employing 40 men. Arkwright's machinery be ing then introduced lor the hrsttune. Progressing in worldly prosperity, ho com menced the Charlton Mills, near Manchester, and selling those, took with his partners the celebrated West Lanark Mills in ccotlund, in cluding its farm of 150 acres, and upwards of 2,000 inhabitants. During more than a quarter of a century that he conducted this establishment, he was visited by Jiuiporors, Rings, Prineaa, Archbishops, Bishops, and clergy ot every do. nomination, from all countries, to witness tho unheard of results produced on children and on a population of adults, living in harmony, and governed only by the novel influence of well- directed kindness, without punishment or tear. Iu the furtherance of his great object to re volutionize peaceably tho minds and practices of the human race, .Mr. Owen was invited in 1828 by the Mexican Minister and others inter estedjiktfuman progress, to go to Mexico, which ho dfTto ask from the Mexican authorities, the iTrovcrnmcnt of Coahiuta and Texas, then undis puted provinces of Mexico, which lind not the right of appointing Governors to these provinces, they were elected by the people. But they freely offered him a district extending 150 miles in breadth, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, along tho line dividing North America from Mexico, and in which was includ ed what is now known as California. New Lanark was commenced in 1774, by Sir R. Ark- wright, with David Dale, of Glasgow, whose daughter Owen married, and commenced busi ness there, just half a century since. In ten years the gaius from this concern, after paying five per cent, capital, were JEGO.OOO, and he bought out his partners for 84.000. Hii new partners, not content with a similar rato of profit, objected to this ex traordinary expenditure for philanthropic pur poses, which they ridiculed as visionary and im practicable; and the concern being put up four years after the second partnership, ho purchas ed it for i,114,OIM), which the partners alorcsaid declared to be 20,000 too cheap, they having realized in the four years 150,000 profit. A majority of the new partners being men of much benevolence, he had everything his own way, and in 1810 commenced, in earnest, his "great moral experiment." His friends laud these in the highest terms, but well may tho " .Men of the Time, from which we derive this sketch, ask, where are now the results? Since that period Owen was less fortunate. He attempted to establish a new "moral community," which failed, and a "labor exchange bazaar," which was equally unsuccessful. Like all visionaries, he had a handful of followers, some of whom outlive him, to preach the "isms of their now dead master. Doings of the Negro Emperor. The Comique Parisienne contains the following facetious story: The Emperor Faustin I, who imitates France in all things, and has, like her, princes, mar shals, dukes, counts, colleges and universities, recently resolved to establish an academy of forty members, like the world renowned trench Academy. But it was not easy to select the forty, every inhabitant in the empire who could write his own name thinking himself qualified. So his Majesty decreed that 3,000"of his subjects who possessed the reputation of being tho most lettered of all, should on a given day assemble at his palace and be subjected to a literary test, When they were collected, ho announced that the test was the writing ot the word citron, and that those who made no error in the spelling should be members of the Academy. Pens, ink and paper were brought; each of the 3,000 people wrote tho word, andthejudgosof the land and the bench of .bishops were charged to examine the 3,000 papers. They proclaimed that thirty-nine only of the candidates hnd written the word correctly that is with a C, the remaining 2,'Jbl having used an S. "Duly thirty-nine, cried tho Emperor, "and wo want forty. Well, I will be the fortieth member myself. "Sire, cried the judges, "your MajeBty will no doubt deign to submit to the test. "Of course, exclaimed Faustin, and in a large bold hand he wrote Xitron with an X. The judges looked puzzled for a moment, and then, aftor glaneing at each other, proclaimed that his Majesty had passed triumphantly through the ordeal. The Emperor was thereupon proclaimed, amidst tho enthusiasm of the assemblage, a member of the Academy. "And I will bo the perpetual secretary, too," added his imporial Majesty, with par donable vanity. McAdamized roads in England were flat in animously by tho Whigs and Americans of the comparison to our turnpikes. All that is need-Union. Nobody south of Mason and Dixon's of a well made, well packed, and smooth line, and scarcely anybody north of that line . ' ... . i - u - u The De Odd Fellows' Casket and Ilevlew. The second issue of a new periodical, devoted to tho interests of Odd Fcllowism. Typographically, the Casket is got up in execllent style, and the editorial management evinces good taste. butucpublicans pure and simple, wouldtouchit. The Journal then proceeds to show how suc cess is to bo won in the next canvass: Tho only effectual and satisfactory proof of the abandonment of their extreme "idea" which the Republicans can offer in 1800 is to rally under the leadership of a statesman of un doubted national views and feelings. This step will tell the whole story, platform or no plat form. This will do, and nothing less will. Under a conservative leador of unsullied ante cedents the Opposition in 1800 will enter tho field as one man, and the Democracy will bite the dust as ono mouth. The most overwhelming and magnificent triumph awaits the movement. And a conservative leader of unsullied antecedents it is not difficult to find. Tho North contains more thnn one such; though inveterate local complications wouhl, in our opinion, ren der tho selection of a Northern leader not alto- eothcr wise. In the South, we have Crittenden and Boll and Rives and Kennedy and a host of other kindling names, whilo, in the Union at laree. we still, thank heaven, have that snlendid old chicftan. who, though once repuls ed on the Presidential field, may yet plant tho flag of his country on the White House in as trlorious triumph as he planted it on tho Halls of the Montezumas. Under the least popular of these diBtineuishcd men, tho Opposition, we be lieve, would enin an easy victory; under the most popular, it would probnbly carry Dela ware. Maryland. Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, and every State of the North, except, perhaps, Indiana, Illinois, and California, and Oregon, if seasonably admitted. It certainly would achieve a most decisive and dazzling triumph. Of this there can bo no ouestion. The Republicans in 1860 havo only to range themselves under the standard of a Southern Whig or American in order to secure tho absolute route and ruin of tho present fo- mocratio party. The writer assumes that the Republican party has "exhausted its mission, that its logical stam ina is spent. Tho idea of resistance to the po litical encroachments of the South, which constitute its sole distinguishing principle, has no longer a practical basis. It is a pure abstraction. It contains no food for party. It is a dead issue" But tho Republican party is quite a respecta-blo party; and the Southern and American opponents of the Adininistrotion will forgive its past, and take its members into full communion, McAdamized road is, just crowning enough to prevent water stnnding on it; but no heighth or degree of crowning will do this in so level a country as this where the road is made into rib bons by channeling. It is evident that no amount of expense in graveling can keep tho National Road in good order under its present system of use. Something should be donf to redeem it, and to save it from desl ruction, when, by proper uso, it would become fourfold better, and not cost in repairs ono tenth it now docs. A. Kansas Fatal to Newspapers. The Lawrence (Kansas) Herald of Freedom says: "We find that some twenty-five newspapers which have started in Kansas sinco its settlement in tho fall of 1854, have suspended or gone entirely. In fact, save the Leavenworth Herald and the Herald of Freedom, tho two old est newspapers in tho territory, we believe there is not a paper which has an editor who dates his connection with the Kansas press back of the spring of 1857. ome half a dozen presses have been brought to the Territory, which were never used by their original proprietors, but changed hands before they wore used. A press was taken to Fort Riley in tho summer of 1850, and is now owned by Mr. Garvcy of Topcka. Another was taken to Manhattan during that year, and is now in the Herald of Freedom office. Tho press on which tho Osawatomic Herald was printed, was takon to that place in the fall of 1855; was buried in a wood pile when that town was destroyed, and laid idle until last winter, when it was brought forth to print that journal. A strange fatality has attended the Kansas newspapors and presses, and their future history will be very interesting. Christianity In Japan. A correspondent of the Boston Traveler, under date of Simoda in Japan, August 15, writes that religious services wore held in tho house of the American Consul, Townscnd Harris, Esq., on tho Sunday following the signing of tho now American Treaty. It will be recollected that tho Treaty providos that Americans may practice thoir religion, and promulgate it throughout tho Empiro, and erect churches whorover they plcaso, tho two Imporial cities, Miako and Jed- do, not excepted. What added to tho interest of tho services was the remembrance that Christianity had been expelled from these Islands for nearly two centuries and a half, tho fatal edict against it having been promulgated in tho year tho very year when tho Pilgrims carried it to the new world, and that this was the first colouration of Protestant worship since the Em pire of Japan was known to the eivilized world. The Peculiarities of our Race. It is stated by competent authority that the number of languages spoken is 3,064. The number of men in the world is about equal to tho number of women. Tho avcrago of human life is thirty-three years. One quarter die bo-fore tho ago of seven; one-half before tho age of seventeen, lo every 1,000 persons, one only reaches 100 years ; and not more than one in 500 reaches the ago of 80 years. Thoroareon eartli 1,000,000,000 of inhabi tants. Of these 33,333,333 die every year; 7, 780 every hour, and 60 every minute, or one for every second. The losses are about balanced by an equal number of births. The married are longer lived than the single; and, above all, those who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Tall men live longer than short ones. Women have moro chances of lifo previous to the age of fifty years than men, but fewer after. The number of marriages is in proportion of iu to 100. Marriages are more frequent after tho equinoxes that is, during the months of Juno and December, those born in the spring nre generally more robust than others. Births and deaths ure more frequent by night than by day. Number of men capable of bearing arms is calculated at one-fourth of our population. According to tho last census of Great Britain the English people in Scotland numbered 18,502 males, and 18,235 females; tho Scottish people in England and Wales, bO, il)4 males, and 42,834 females; Irish people in England and Scotland 219,397 malos, and 199,8u0 females. The males in the three Islands at the soldier s ago of twenty to forty, amount to 8,800,000 men. So that, with a good militia system, and such a degrco of military discipline as expert ence in this country has proved can bo attained by volunteers, England might bid defianco to all Europe in arms. Death of the Hon. Henry Bellinger. Tho telegraph brings us intelligence of the sudden death of the Hon. Honry Bedingor, on the morning of tho 26th instant, at his residence adjoining Sliephordstown, Virginia. Mr. Bedin gor had but lately returned to his homo, after an absenoo of live years as Ministor to tho Court of Donmnik, during which service ho had been successful in bringing nbout, a treaty for the abolition of tho Danish Sound Dues, so long a subject of complaint and vexation. Ho had represented the Jefferson district in Con gress with ability, being a fluent and eloquent speaker. It. was but three weeks previous to hisdoath that Ins Incnds gave aim a most cheer ing wclcouio home, at Charleston, in which the prominent men of nil parties and a largo por tion of the people joined with heartiness. Few mon of tho day appear to have enjoyed u more doscrved personal popularity whero known. His sickness was pneumonia, with whioh he was attacked on tho 23d instant. National Intelligencer, Nov. 23. . The Old Kitchen. " You will find the old house greatly changed. Cousin Millie, when you come to see us in the fall," wrote Mrs. Rood, the pretty lively wife of a whole half year. "We're having all the back part torn down, and we're having a new sitting room and a new bed-room, and ft real new laslnoned kitchen and we shall have the new house heated with furnaces, and all the modern improvements. We shall retain the front because it is built of stone, but we're to have long windows, and a new portico; and dear old grandpa would hardly recognize his old homo, if he could set down on his favorite seat under the old cherry treo, and see it again. It does seem so sacrilegious to go to tearing down and 'pulling up so soon after his death, but Hurry wants everything ready lur winter, so we have hud to commence at once; and dear Millie, you'll find everything so new, so nice and comfortable when you come to see us, that I'm in hopes you won't know how to leave us at all!" And Mildred Race closed up the lottor of her lively cousin with a sigh, and leaning back in her chair, old memories came thronging up through the halls of her heart, that filled her eyes with tears, those eyes like the eyes of a spring hidden in the deep woods, when the summer moon-shine flutters down in its deep blue heart. 1 1 don't mind the rest of tho house," mur mured sweet Mildred Race, "but the old kitchen with its great, old-fashioned fire-place, I don't know how to spare that. Ah me I what brave times I used to have, away down in my childhood, on these visits to Grandpa's I I can see it all now, just as though I had been there last night, the group gathered in the long autumn evenings round the chimney. There were the grate and irons, with their lion's feet, and their bruss tops aud the pile of birch sticks built up almost to the jamb, and all our faces would glow in tho light of the fire, that beat in the ruddy surf of the black chimney. Grandpa always sat in the corner and his hair white as the year is when it settles in December. The great silver-bowed spectacles rested low on his nose as he slowly read the newspaper, and shook his head and said: 'Things didn't use to go on so when I was a young man.' And grandma sat on the other eide with one or the whitest caps and the pleasantcst smiles, toe ing off a woolen stocking and pausing to show some of her grand children how to count apple seeds, just as they did at the frolics when she was a girl. "The frost was at work at the windows, mar velous and cunning artist that frost was; etch ing with silent, mysterious fingers all sorts of landscapes and figures, which we should read in the morning with as much eager curiosity and interest, as travelers read this day, of old stones and ruined palaces, the hioroglyphics of Nineveh and Egypt. There would be suggestions of wondrous landscapes, of mountains and valleys and rivers; of gardens, too, fair as the hanging gardens of Babylon. There would be Westminister, Versailles, and St. Peter's, all done in a single night; there would be fountains of run ning waters and palms of India, and somewhere in the corners some of us would find the old barn and long well-pole at grandpa's. "Oh, I repeat it, they were brave times never to return, round that old kitchen fire, that hung in crimson flags over the birch logs, while we pared apples and counted seeds; and poor Charlie cracked walnuts poor Charlie 1 the stars look down on his lonely grave in California! But I see him now with the great brick on his lap, with his hummer going crack, crack, but somehow it didn t disturb one bit the sallies of fun and outbreaks of laughter round that tem- "plo. "And there was the clock the clock thut bo- " longed to my great-great aunt, and that ticked away the lives of five generations, in one corner, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, with the half moon on its face. What a history, what a biography that old clock was, set there in the kitchen corner; that had watched such bright hair turned to snow, such fair young foreheads grow dark and wrinkled under the burden of its years ! "And at last, when the hour-hand crept up to nine, grandpa would tuke his old-fushioned bible, and the laughing eye and merry dimples would settle into gravity, as he read those blessed words onco read over his cradle, and that would soon be read over his grave I And fol lowing this, came the prayer that seemed to draw all hearts nearer to tho gate of heaven I "bo when all this was over, grandpa would take the iron shovel and heap the grey ashes on the glowing cone of fire just as the years heap the ashes on the glowing hopes and joys of youth; and grandma would fold up her stock- ng, and stick the needles into the ball of yarn and say : Come, children, it is time for honest people to go abed.' " And going back there I shall miss them all; grandma's white cap, and grandpa's silvor hair, and tho cluster of bright young faces round the fire in the autumn evening; but if they hadn't torn down tho kitchen, I could have gone and sat by the bircj) fire and dreamed my old dreams and brought the in all back to me ; but now its all gone all gone even the old kitchen and fire place 1" and Mildred Race bowed her head on her hands and wept. " The old kitchen fireside!" the firesides where our grandfathers read, and our grandmothers knit, are growing less throughout the land. Urim. ghouls, in tho shape of stoves and furnaces, are everywhere taking their places, and the reign of andirons and birch wood hros is growing less every year. let blessed be the old kitchen and mantletree and jamb ! and blessed, too, the dreams that were buildcd out of those old birch-wood fires- fair palaces and pleasant gardens, and that all beautiful country, the Future, and which have all turned, like an old kitchen fire, to ashes! Tho End of a Prize Fighter. The following account is from an eye witness of the last round fight between Lilly and McCoy, in which the latter was killed: "As time was called, at the one hundred and twentieth round, McCoy was lilted from his second's knee, and stood on his feet for the last time. He was led slowly to the mark, and took his position a dying man but as erect, as dig nified, as game as ever. Lilly rushed in, threw him hard, and fell with his whole weight upon him, and remained upon the dying man until lifted off. On approaching him, (McCoy,) he was found to bo perfectly inanimato, and sank lifeless into his second's arms. Timo was called, but alas not for him. Poor follow, he was doomed never to hear a sound again till the challenge of the last trumpot shall pierce the portals of his ears, and summon him, with those who did foul murder on him, to a 'mark' from which there can be no dodging no escape. Ho had fought for two hours and forty minutes, receiving eighty-one heavy falls, with his antagonist on him, and bleeding, certainly, for two and a half hours. As soon as he was declared the vio-tor, Lilly jumped up, slapped his hands with an exclamation of joy, and amid the cheers of his circlo, sprang over tho rope of the ring. He was but littlo marked, and was not severely hurt. Poor McCoy, on being lifted from the ground, sank as limp as a rag in his Becond'i , nrms. A cry was made for tho doctor, and a movement in the mnss took place to give him air. I forced my way in the crowd, and looked at tho dying man. God grant that I may never see such another sight. Ho lay upon his back, one bruised, unseemly mass of incipient corruption, gasping for breath, and word wont in a hoarso whisper that ho was dead. Never shall I forget the talismanic horror of that expression."It is stated that Scnor Tassara, the Spanish Minister to this government, has notified Secretary Cass that his government has no other designs on Mexico than the protection of her oiti-sens residing there, and the enforcement of her claims for indemnity. Hor object is alleged to be similar to that of England and France. ' '

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K I). M. M. Powers. Sec'y. CA 1'ITOL ENCA MPMENT, No. Meets every Tuesday evening. Haury Tarbill, U.l Jos. iiowdall, scnue JAMES S. AUSTIN, Att'y at Law and Mary Public COLUMBUS, OHIO, At office of P. B. & J as. A. Wilcox, No. T South High St, nuv24 S. W. ANDREWS, ATTOBNEY .A.T LAW, Office No. 3 Johnson Building, High Street, - - COLUMBUS, OHIO. nov'29 ly ' ALLEN G. TIllRMAN, Attorney txt TLaciwr, COLUMBUS, OHIO, fe20 Office on High street, lietwin Friend and Mound. A. B. BUTTLES, Attorney zvxaci Counsol" OA 1 1 For tho present at the Clerk's Office. felO R. E. CHAMPION, Soalor in. Coal tSo Colio Tard and Office near Railroad Depot, no20 COLVMKVS, OHIO. DAILY JOURNAL. to the painting of filial and parental love, and the affairs of ono family. In his latost work, however, all the excellen cies of Bulwer's genius appear. We think that in the fullness of time, which tests everything, this will take rank next to Wilhelm Melstor. Nay in some things, it is more catholio than the book of the great old heathen. Without ever losing his self-poise, the author comes nearer to you than Goethe docs, whose majostie wisdom and classic repose do not awaken emotion so of ten as profound admiration. The comparison, of even Bulwer with Goetho, however, isdangerous. Of courso, though the plot is one of doop in terest, "What will Ho do with It" is to be read less for the sake of that, than for its abundant philosophy, and cunning delineation and elaboration of character. There is nothing, it seems to us, wanting in the verisimilitude and life-likeness of tho principal people of this novel. If Alban Morley, or Guy Darrell, or Lionel Houghton, or Gentleman Waife, or his villain- son, or grim Arabella Crane it any ot these should step out of the book and become a living presence before us, "Wc should not think It to be strange." It by no means detracts from tho probability of these people that they pass through adven tures, and trials, and sorrows, little known to the common lot. We rather realize them the more readily for that, and say merely, "This is Guy Darrell, (as.he passes) the strange genius, who flung away the prospect of tho most brilliant career, and lives a rccluso at Fawley." Even our knowledge of Dorrell's nobleness and gcntlcmanhood, does not prevent us from com passionating his eccentricities, just as we pity those of men out of books. Morley is a fully developed type of character which Bulwer has always loved to depict. A gentle, well-natured man of the world. Rich, and therefore only industrous and shrewd for others. Gifted, but indolently elegant. Wise in tho world, but a believer in mon. A kind, true friend, with love for his friends almost as strong as passion, which he seems not to have known. Hj is akin to Sallust, in "Tho Last Days of Pompei," to Talbot in "Tho Disowned," to Fanny Trovanion's husband in "Tho Caxtons," and distantly to Harley L'Eitrange in "My Novel." ' Gentleman Waife, the witty, wise old stroller, who is introduced to the rentier as a per former in Mr. Rugge's wandering Theatre, wins at first our liking, and with the discovery of his past career, our reverence and love. He is one of the most noble and elevating characters that any poet (for Bulwer justly contends that the great novelist is a poet) has created. In Sophy, Lady Montfort, Lady Carr Vipont, we have real women. Dickens draws very nice little girls, they say; the ladies all deny that Thackeray's Becky Sharps and Amelias are fair types of their sex. It is Bulwer alone, of tho three great English novelists, who can depict Women, and not nice little girls, imbe ciles or wretches. To our thinking, however, the very hero of the book is that handsome, strong, wicked, soul less brute, Jasper Losely. The depravity of this man, which works out, without actual disaster befalling him, its own natural and terrible pun ishment, is as utter and as probable as that of Iago.' One doesn t have tho uncomforta ble consciousness of being related to Bulwer's rascals as to Thackeray's; nor are they impossi bly hideous monsters like those of Dickons. Yet, they are as truly men as the first, and as hate ful as the last. Jasper is presented early in tho book, as gay, frivolous, treacherous, handsomo, brave and daring rogue. His magnificent physique and dashing mmnor, make him to bo feared and adored of tho women ; and his iron constitution enables him to live a life of the most thorough and abandoned dissipation. Proud, barbarously vain and shallow, and with- out wealth, ho must of course maintain himself as a chioelier d Industrie. 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AND USEFUL ARTICLES for Ladles and Uentlemen, all of which will bo enld very low for CASH, at Whiting's old stand, No. 09 High street, Columbin, Hiiro. mural LITERARY MATTERS. "Peter," writing to theN. Y. Post from Boston, makes this pleasant mention of the Atlantic: The Atlantic Monthly is to commence the new year witn nigh Hopes, ana alter lourtecn monins of unequivocal success. Among the pleasant things connected therewith is tho Atlantic Club, composed of the contributors to the Monthly who meet once a month over one ot barker b best dinners, and enjoy themselves in a way becoming modern Athenians. Some inkling of the it and wisdom which finds the daylight, around the Club's ample mahogany, may bo gathered from a mention of the names or Lmerson, Low. ell and Holmes, as constant attendants upon Its meetings. Another recently established club, which also dines monthly, is the' Adirondao, composed of members of that famous party which encamped last summer among the woody mountains of northern New York. It is rumored that fcmer- son's unfortunate gun has deprived Longfellow of admission to this select and agreeable circle. This loss is somewhat compensated for by the success of his Miles Standish, which is already up among the twenty-fifth thousand. Let the makers of English hexameters take courage; and the ghost of Edgar A. Foe retire to oblivion. Blackwood's Magazine. We have received from Leonard Scott & Co.' New York, the November number of this peri odical, whose infinite variety, long custom has not stated. The table of contents is as follows: Buckle's History of Civilization; What will He do with It? Edward Irving; The Light of the Hearth; Cherbourg; Lord Canning's Reply to the Ellenborough Dispatch. We have not had time to look thoroughl y at all these papers; yielding our first attention to BULWER'S "WflAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?" Which has nearly two years' claim upon our intc.cst. It has been said (and not without reason,) of tho later novels of Dickens, that they fall fur below his earlier works. Tho samo criticism has been mado upon Thackeray ; and each of these writers finds his most perilous present ri val in reputation already achieved. Tho ad-mircrsof the author of "Pendennis" and "Vanity Fair," cannot with safety to their admiration, comparo his "Virginians" with those works; and it is to be granted by the most ar dent lover (for that is the word,) of Dickens, that "Bleak House," and "Littlo Dorrit" have vastly moreof his peculiar faults, and less of him, her attempts to rescue him, and turn him his peculiar excellencies, thnn "David Copper- from his mad careor, her persistent and unwea- field," or "The Old Curiosity Shop," or "Barna- by Rudgo." In Bulwer. however, there is no wane, but rather steady growth of a genius, second only, we are tempted to say, to that of Goethe. His early efforts gave no bright promise of purity or greatness. They were those of a clevor, schol arly and studious man, who was deemed rather wicked than otherwise, and whoso writings were thought to be dangerously corrupt. It was once almost an uncomfortable thing to be a lover of them; and they were always mentioned by moral friends, who ndvised young people not to read novels. We do not say these opinions wcro wrong; for in spite of the authors ingen ious defense, we havo ever thought "Paul Clif ford" an evil book: and "Tho Roue"' is entirely vicious. But with the publication of each suc ceeding work, tho genius of Bulwer has seemed to grow purer and better and stronger. "The stream whoso waters were so muddy at th first," says our British reviewer of Gcorgo Snnd's Autobiography, "has run itself clear and sweet at lust." "Tho Disowned," was better than any novel which had preceded it from the same pen, and in "Tho Coxtons," the tendercst and loftiest MRS. llOPPERTON, HAS OPENED A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF Parisian Millinery, Which was bought at tho lowest rash price : and a richer and more varied ossorlnmnt of FEATHERS, FLOWERS CAPS, HKAD-DltESSES, HAIR ORNAMENTS AND PINS, etc., never before olfered tu the Ladies of Columbus. Also, Embroideries very cheap. Victoria Self Adjusting Correts, Natural Hair Bands, Braids, Wigs and Curls. All Orders Attended to With Neatness and Elegance, MRS. nOPTERTON, grateful for past favors, solicits B turo patronage. tcpli feelings of our nature aro appealed to and touched. How beautiful is the love of Pisistrutus and his father! how noblo tho character of tho old sol dier uuelo! how rare the mothorly sweetness of the gentlo scholar's wife! The morality of tho book is faultless. Its philosophy is deep and subtle. Its poetry is passionate and genuine. Though most of the people in "Tho Caxtons" pass through sufferings far more severe than thoso appointed for most of us, yet tho book is not a bad ono, for its lesson is tho true Christian lesson: endurance of misfortune and grief, and "final triumph over Bclf. No one ever rose a worso man from tho perusal of "Tho Cox-ton's," and no one over rend it without enlargement of his thoughts and affections. In "My Novel, or, Tho Varieties of English Life," tho samo gold is mined, but tho voins of tho treasure run in diverse and widor directions. It is moro a book of the world than "The Caxtons," which without being that intolerable thing, a domcstio novel, is much devoted ricd kindness, make him halo and fear her. Ho goes to her for aid with the utmost reluc tance, and escapes from hor benevolenc with delight. It would bo beyond our pre sent purposo to trace the steps of Jasper Losely down to the low depths of misery and degradation to which he hurries. Tho in cvitablo consequences of his misdeeds come up on him. His manly beauty passes away; slow diseaso fastens upon his stalwart frame; th arts by which he lived on others fail him, and he becomes a desperate ruffian, as he was a hopeful ruflian before. Through all, tho goodness o the grim, cold woman pursues him. She is truly to him ono of the Eumcnides, as the old Athenians called the furies. It is easy to guess tho fate that finally awaits hi in, and the closing chapters in the Blackwood before us leave us in no anxiety about him. Meanwhile, the story continues, though "Wh; will Ho do with It," is a question to which fore gone chapters have already indicated replies, Guy Darrell must inevitably marry Lady Montfort; Lionel will wed Sophy; Colonel Morley will havo his chair at the fircsido of his fricn and for Waife is reserved the accustomed happi ncss of good people in novels. Jasper Losely already shudders on the brink of dissolution. We freely confess, however, that wo don't know what Arabella Crane "will do with it." Ohio Journal of Education. December number of this journal closes tho seventh volume; and in no former year, has it been so successfully conducted as in that just passed. It richly deserves tho encouragement and support of the teachers of Ohio, and of our citizens. Tho number opens with a paper on "Comets and their Chronology," from the distinguished and eccentric Astronomer, Daniel Vauglmn ; which is followed by nino excellent articles from different sources. The editorial department is not less creditablo and attractive. he The Lonlsvllle Journal on Republicanism. Tho Louisville Journal, in a long article on the subject of a combination of the elements of opposition to the Democratic party, expresses it self in very positive terms, to the following pur port. We have not space for the entire article, but quote its salient points. After premising that "there are two things which it is of the last importance that the Republicans of the North should opportunely realize, for their own sako, as well as for the sake of the nation," it proceeds to specify 1st. That nothing less t!:an a union of tho Opposition can defeat the Democracy in 1800. 2d. That neithor Mr. Seward nor any other Republican can unite tho Opposition. The Journal manifests great confidence in the assumption that both these propositions are in- sputable; and lest some of the Northern Re publicans should bo inclined to doubts, proceeds to demonstrate to its own satisfaction that the Republican party is not so strong now as it was in 1856, when it failed to elect its Presiden tial candidate It says in this connection: The political developments of the day all point to a union of the Democracy in I860. And tliev point unerringly, nooouy uouuis it. inu anti-Lecompton Democracy of the North and the Lecompton Democracy of the South will unquestionably rally with equal enthusiasm under the bapner unfurled by the nominee oi me Charleston Convention. The party will take the field as a unit. Everything is in resistless train for this issue. It is certain. Union for the sake of the spoils of the Union. Nothing t . . i t, can prevent it. cut me ueiuo-ruuy umra must inevitably rout a divided Opposition. It reouires no reasoning to establish this. The national contest ot loot put me point ncyonu all shadow of doubt. Tho Republican party was immeasurably stronger then than it is now, or ever will be again. It was stronger relatively by nearly half a million votes than it could possibly be in the struggle ot laou unuer tne most popular of its own leaders. And it was defeated in 1856. Most assuredly its discom fiture as a party in 1800 would be far more sig nal and thorough. Tho Democracy bearing down in solid phalant against the obstinate Republican division of the imposition would owoon not nnlv tlio entire South, but at least a l'"8 r .i.. Pnnawn;. Indiana den wagons Illinois, and California, to mention no other States, would fall betore its conquering tread as sure as fate. The united Democracy would triumph over tho divided Opposition without an effort. The Opposition must unite, or bo over thrown and annihilated. This tact is manitest. But neithor Mr. Seward nor any other Republi can can unite the Opposition. This is equally manifest. It is well to speak frankly. The Whigs and Americans of the nation can never co-operate with the Republicans as such. The thing is noliticallv impossible. It is folly to talk orthink of it. The Republicans must abandon or at all events pretermit their distinctive "one idea" before the Whigs and Amoncans ot tne country can act with them. In other words, a practicnl renunciation or adjournment of their peculiar . .. "v .r.!- -ff : tf aoma is tne necessary conumun oi umun ui the Opposition. This is a settled point. We osumo thore is no sensible man in the jNortn who will contest it. Tho Republican watchword must be relinquished. But what, would its professed relinquishment omountto under the leadership of Mr. Seward or any other Republican? What strength would tne lairest piattorm exort outsido of the Republican ranks with the name of a Republican floating above it. Not any. Not the slightest. JNo matter now conservative and national its terms mightbe, it would attract the confidence of none but Republicans. It would bo to all intents and purposes a Republican platform. Almost everybody except the Kepub-licans would shun or spurn it. Whether justly or not, it would be derided on every side as a transparent mockery, and rejected all but un- U it will only abandon its principles, desert its leaders, and place itself under their special di rection and protection. Says the Journal: The Republican party is not a body of knaves and fanatics. It is not a set of fools. The bulk of its members are personally upright, intelligent and conservative. It is composed for the most part of men who until the epoch or the repeal of the Missouri Compromise were the brave and even self-sacrificing defenders of the con stitutional rights of the South. It consists mainly of individuals who formed no small portion of the flower of the. old Whig and Democratic parties. Outraged by what they conceived to be a flagrant breach of faith on the part of the South, and fired by the aggressions which they fancied it foreshadowed, they, iu a moment of misguided zeal, cast aside established party relations, together with all the great political measures of the day, and rallied with vehement enthusiasm in opposition to the conjectural as saults of an imaginary adversary. IV e do not judge them harshly for the past. They may plead in their lavor the instincts or nature it not tho dictates of wisdom, lint the past is past. The experience ot two years lias taught them, not, indeed, that they arc at all incapable of defending the just rights of their own section if necessary, but that no nggression on those rights is really designod. The single end for which they were provoked to adjourn gravo questions of policy and unite, is answered. The isolated purpose of their temporary and pnrlinl combina tion is achieved. The object of their special array is accompli jhed. Their mission as Republicans is fulfilled. The article concludes with an appeal to Re publicans to abandon their distinctive organi zation and issues, and "to aid iu a feasible at tempt to rescue our institutions, from tho Vandal hands of tho Democracy-.'' We have some comments to make upon this singular article, which will be found in another column. For the Ohio State Joun Our National Road. Messrs. Editors: Plcaso allow me a small space in your paper, as I wish to call attention to the very bad condition of the National Road. Taking into view the vast amount of travel on this road; the enormous loads that are constant, ly passing, with the narrow tread of the wheels bearing those heavy burdens, we need not wonder that the road becomes rutted or channeled, by which the traveler is constantly annoyed, especially so on each turn-out to avoid collisions in meeting, and in overhauling and passing. To repair this channeling, much has been ex pended in piling on gravel in the center of the road until it has become too crowning, thus com pelling the travel to a very narrow space, thereby working direct injury to the road in hasten ing the channeling process. Under this state of things it is impossible to put, and to keep, any turnpike in good, smooth condition for comfortable traveling. , I have two suggestions to make for the better ment of this road, which are no less applicable to all turnpikes. As our portion of tho National Road is under the guardianship of our Legislature, I wish to appeal to our Franklin county members in particular, together with thoso persons who have this road in their keeping. As a half-way remedy in putting a stop to, or holding in check tho wholesale destruction of this road by channeling, 1 propose that all bur- or vehicles with narrow-tread wheels, such as are now used, and-with the present length of axle-tree, shall be charged with double the toll they are now taxed. 2. That all burden vehicles with narrow-tread wheels, hav ing axle-trees eight inches longer than those in common use, shall pay only half the toll now exacted. As an inducement to users of tho road to in crease the width of their tread, I would say that all burden wagons, with three-inch tire, should have one fourth deducted from the tolls I have proposed. My aim would be to divido burden wagons in to three equal classes, and to attain this by a dif ference in toll. Were our burden vehicles brought to this classification of equal numbers in each, 1 am of opinion that wo should have but little injury to this road by its wearing into channels; and if this cliunueling process was fully prevented, the needed repairs would not be one tenth they now are, besides we would havo a fourfold better road. My second suggestion, by which a complete remedy against rutted or channeled roads, is, to put a full atop to all burden vehicles with less than six inches tread ; this to bo done by a toll that shall work a prohibition. I traveled much on MoAdamizcd roads in England in 181U, and never saw on roads thore the least semblance of channeling; their whole surface was as smooth as the best new laid sidewalks in Columbus. There the heavy burden wagons have not less than twelve inches tread on their wheels, having threo streaks of tire on each wheel. Death of Robert Owen. The death of Robert Owen is an item of news by the Halifax steamer. This-celobrated politi cal theorist was born in Wales in 1771. At 7 yoarsof age he was usher, and at 0 underroas- tcr ol an elementary bchooi in ins native town. Next year he was in a grocery and draper's shop, and then proceeded to Stamford to a dra- -per s shop, supporting nlmseir tor lour years, when he went to London, where, in two years. he was offered the half partnership in the lucrative establishment he had joined, with the promise of tho wholo concern and adequate cap ital after a time; but he declined, and, at 18, became a partner in a cotton-spinning factory, employing 40 men. Arkwright's machinery be ing then introduced lor the hrsttune. Progressing in worldly prosperity, ho com menced the Charlton Mills, near Manchester, and selling those, took with his partners the celebrated West Lanark Mills in ccotlund, in cluding its farm of 150 acres, and upwards of 2,000 inhabitants. During more than a quarter of a century that he conducted this establishment, he was visited by Jiuiporors, Rings, Prineaa, Archbishops, Bishops, and clergy ot every do. nomination, from all countries, to witness tho unheard of results produced on children and on a population of adults, living in harmony, and governed only by the novel influence of well- directed kindness, without punishment or tear. Iu the furtherance of his great object to re volutionize peaceably tho minds and practices of the human race, .Mr. Owen was invited in 1828 by the Mexican Minister and others inter estedjiktfuman progress, to go to Mexico, which ho dfTto ask from the Mexican authorities, the iTrovcrnmcnt of Coahiuta and Texas, then undis puted provinces of Mexico, which lind not the right of appointing Governors to these provinces, they were elected by the people. But they freely offered him a district extending 150 miles in breadth, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, along tho line dividing North America from Mexico, and in which was includ ed what is now known as California. New Lanark was commenced in 1774, by Sir R. Ark- wright, with David Dale, of Glasgow, whose daughter Owen married, and commenced busi ness there, just half a century since. In ten years the gaius from this concern, after paying five per cent, capital, were JEGO.OOO, and he bought out his partners for 84.000. Hii new partners, not content with a similar rato of profit, objected to this ex traordinary expenditure for philanthropic pur poses, which they ridiculed as visionary and im practicable; and the concern being put up four years after the second partnership, ho purchas ed it for i,114,OIM), which the partners alorcsaid declared to be 20,000 too cheap, they having realized in the four years 150,000 profit. A majority of the new partners being men of much benevolence, he had everything his own way, and in 1810 commenced, in earnest, his "great moral experiment." His friends laud these in the highest terms, but well may tho " .Men of the Time, from which we derive this sketch, ask, where are now the results? Since that period Owen was less fortunate. He attempted to establish a new "moral community," which failed, and a "labor exchange bazaar," which was equally unsuccessful. Like all visionaries, he had a handful of followers, some of whom outlive him, to preach the "isms of their now dead master. Doings of the Negro Emperor. The Comique Parisienne contains the following facetious story: The Emperor Faustin I, who imitates France in all things, and has, like her, princes, mar shals, dukes, counts, colleges and universities, recently resolved to establish an academy of forty members, like the world renowned trench Academy. But it was not easy to select the forty, every inhabitant in the empire who could write his own name thinking himself qualified. So his Majesty decreed that 3,000"of his subjects who possessed the reputation of being tho most lettered of all, should on a given day assemble at his palace and be subjected to a literary test, When they were collected, ho announced that the test was the writing ot the word citron, and that those who made no error in the spelling should be members of the Academy. Pens, ink and paper were brought; each of the 3,000 people wrote tho word, andthejudgosof the land and the bench of .bishops were charged to examine the 3,000 papers. They proclaimed that thirty-nine only of the candidates hnd written the word correctly that is with a C, the remaining 2,'Jbl having used an S. "Duly thirty-nine, cried tho Emperor, "and wo want forty. Well, I will be the fortieth member myself. "Sire, cried the judges, "your MajeBty will no doubt deign to submit to the test. "Of course, exclaimed Faustin, and in a large bold hand he wrote Xitron with an X. The judges looked puzzled for a moment, and then, aftor glaneing at each other, proclaimed that his Majesty had passed triumphantly through the ordeal. The Emperor was thereupon proclaimed, amidst tho enthusiasm of the assemblage, a member of the Academy. "And I will bo the perpetual secretary, too," added his imporial Majesty, with par donable vanity. McAdamized roads in England were flat in animously by tho Whigs and Americans of the comparison to our turnpikes. All that is need-Union. Nobody south of Mason and Dixon's of a well made, well packed, and smooth line, and scarcely anybody north of that line . ' ... . i - u - u The De Odd Fellows' Casket and Ilevlew. The second issue of a new periodical, devoted to tho interests of Odd Fcllowism. Typographically, the Casket is got up in execllent style, and the editorial management evinces good taste. butucpublicans pure and simple, wouldtouchit. The Journal then proceeds to show how suc cess is to bo won in the next canvass: Tho only effectual and satisfactory proof of the abandonment of their extreme "idea" which the Republicans can offer in 1800 is to rally under the leadership of a statesman of un doubted national views and feelings. This step will tell the whole story, platform or no plat form. This will do, and nothing less will. Under a conservative leador of unsullied ante cedents the Opposition in 1800 will enter tho field as one man, and the Democracy will bite the dust as ono mouth. The most overwhelming and magnificent triumph awaits the movement. And a conservative leader of unsullied antecedents it is not difficult to find. Tho North contains more thnn one such; though inveterate local complications wouhl, in our opinion, ren der tho selection of a Northern leader not alto- eothcr wise. In the South, we have Crittenden and Boll and Rives and Kennedy and a host of other kindling names, whilo, in the Union at laree. we still, thank heaven, have that snlendid old chicftan. who, though once repuls ed on the Presidential field, may yet plant tho flag of his country on the White House in as trlorious triumph as he planted it on tho Halls of the Montezumas. Under the least popular of these diBtineuishcd men, tho Opposition, we be lieve, would enin an easy victory; under the most popular, it would probnbly carry Dela ware. Maryland. Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, and every State of the North, except, perhaps, Indiana, Illinois, and California, and Oregon, if seasonably admitted. It certainly would achieve a most decisive and dazzling triumph. Of this there can bo no ouestion. The Republicans in 1860 havo only to range themselves under the standard of a Southern Whig or American in order to secure tho absolute route and ruin of tho present fo- mocratio party. The writer assumes that the Republican party has "exhausted its mission, that its logical stam ina is spent. Tho idea of resistance to the po litical encroachments of the South, which constitute its sole distinguishing principle, has no longer a practical basis. It is a pure abstraction. It contains no food for party. It is a dead issue" But tho Republican party is quite a respecta-blo party; and the Southern and American opponents of the Adininistrotion will forgive its past, and take its members into full communion, McAdamized road is, just crowning enough to prevent water stnnding on it; but no heighth or degree of crowning will do this in so level a country as this where the road is made into rib bons by channeling. It is evident that no amount of expense in graveling can keep tho National Road in good order under its present system of use. Something should be donf to redeem it, and to save it from desl ruction, when, by proper uso, it would become fourfold better, and not cost in repairs ono tenth it now docs. A. Kansas Fatal to Newspapers. The Lawrence (Kansas) Herald of Freedom says: "We find that some twenty-five newspapers which have started in Kansas sinco its settlement in tho fall of 1854, have suspended or gone entirely. In fact, save the Leavenworth Herald and the Herald of Freedom, tho two old est newspapers in tho territory, we believe there is not a paper which has an editor who dates his connection with the Kansas press back of the spring of 1857. ome half a dozen presses have been brought to the Territory, which were never used by their original proprietors, but changed hands before they wore used. A press was taken to Fort Riley in tho summer of 1850, and is now owned by Mr. Garvcy of Topcka. Another was taken to Manhattan during that year, and is now in the Herald of Freedom office. Tho press on which tho Osawatomic Herald was printed, was takon to that place in the fall of 1855; was buried in a wood pile when that town was destroyed, and laid idle until last winter, when it was brought forth to print that journal. A strange fatality has attended the Kansas newspapors and presses, and their future history will be very interesting. Christianity In Japan. A correspondent of the Boston Traveler, under date of Simoda in Japan, August 15, writes that religious services wore held in tho house of the American Consul, Townscnd Harris, Esq., on tho Sunday following the signing of tho now American Treaty. It will be recollected that tho Treaty providos that Americans may practice thoir religion, and promulgate it throughout tho Empiro, and erect churches whorover they plcaso, tho two Imporial cities, Miako and Jed- do, not excepted. What added to tho interest of tho services was the remembrance that Christianity had been expelled from these Islands for nearly two centuries and a half, tho fatal edict against it having been promulgated in tho year tho very year when tho Pilgrims carried it to the new world, and that this was the first colouration of Protestant worship since the Em pire of Japan was known to the eivilized world. The Peculiarities of our Race. It is stated by competent authority that the number of languages spoken is 3,064. The number of men in the world is about equal to tho number of women. Tho avcrago of human life is thirty-three years. One quarter die bo-fore tho ago of seven; one-half before tho age of seventeen, lo every 1,000 persons, one only reaches 100 years ; and not more than one in 500 reaches the ago of 80 years. Thoroareon eartli 1,000,000,000 of inhabi tants. Of these 33,333,333 die every year; 7, 780 every hour, and 60 every minute, or one for every second. The losses are about balanced by an equal number of births. The married are longer lived than the single; and, above all, those who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Tall men live longer than short ones. Women have moro chances of lifo previous to the age of fifty years than men, but fewer after. The number of marriages is in proportion of iu to 100. Marriages are more frequent after tho equinoxes that is, during the months of Juno and December, those born in the spring nre generally more robust than others. Births and deaths ure more frequent by night than by day. Number of men capable of bearing arms is calculated at one-fourth of our population. According to tho last census of Great Britain the English people in Scotland numbered 18,502 males, and 18,235 females; tho Scottish people in England and Wales, bO, il)4 males, and 42,834 females; Irish people in England and Scotland 219,397 malos, and 199,8u0 females. The males in the three Islands at the soldier s ago of twenty to forty, amount to 8,800,000 men. So that, with a good militia system, and such a degrco of military discipline as expert ence in this country has proved can bo attained by volunteers, England might bid defianco to all Europe in arms. Death of the Hon. Henry Bellinger. Tho telegraph brings us intelligence of the sudden death of the Hon. Honry Bedingor, on the morning of tho 26th instant, at his residence adjoining Sliephordstown, Virginia. Mr. Bedin gor had but lately returned to his homo, after an absenoo of live years as Ministor to tho Court of Donmnik, during which service ho had been successful in bringing nbout, a treaty for the abolition of tho Danish Sound Dues, so long a subject of complaint and vexation. Ho had represented the Jefferson district in Con gress with ability, being a fluent and eloquent speaker. It. was but three weeks previous to hisdoath that Ins Incnds gave aim a most cheer ing wclcouio home, at Charleston, in which the prominent men of nil parties and a largo por tion of the people joined with heartiness. Few mon of tho day appear to have enjoyed u more doscrved personal popularity whero known. His sickness was pneumonia, with whioh he was attacked on tho 23d instant. National Intelligencer, Nov. 23. . The Old Kitchen. " You will find the old house greatly changed. Cousin Millie, when you come to see us in the fall," wrote Mrs. Rood, the pretty lively wife of a whole half year. "We're having all the back part torn down, and we're having a new sitting room and a new bed-room, and ft real new laslnoned kitchen and we shall have the new house heated with furnaces, and all the modern improvements. We shall retain the front because it is built of stone, but we're to have long windows, and a new portico; and dear old grandpa would hardly recognize his old homo, if he could set down on his favorite seat under the old cherry treo, and see it again. It does seem so sacrilegious to go to tearing down and 'pulling up so soon after his death, but Hurry wants everything ready lur winter, so we have hud to commence at once; and dear Millie, you'll find everything so new, so nice and comfortable when you come to see us, that I'm in hopes you won't know how to leave us at all!" And Mildred Race closed up the lottor of her lively cousin with a sigh, and leaning back in her chair, old memories came thronging up through the halls of her heart, that filled her eyes with tears, those eyes like the eyes of a spring hidden in the deep woods, when the summer moon-shine flutters down in its deep blue heart. 1 1 don't mind the rest of tho house," mur mured sweet Mildred Race, "but the old kitchen with its great, old-fashioned fire-place, I don't know how to spare that. Ah me I what brave times I used to have, away down in my childhood, on these visits to Grandpa's I I can see it all now, just as though I had been there last night, the group gathered in the long autumn evenings round the chimney. There were the grate and irons, with their lion's feet, and their bruss tops aud the pile of birch sticks built up almost to the jamb, and all our faces would glow in tho light of the fire, that beat in the ruddy surf of the black chimney. Grandpa always sat in the corner and his hair white as the year is when it settles in December. The great silver-bowed spectacles rested low on his nose as he slowly read the newspaper, and shook his head and said: 'Things didn't use to go on so when I was a young man.' And grandma sat on the other eide with one or the whitest caps and the pleasantcst smiles, toe ing off a woolen stocking and pausing to show some of her grand children how to count apple seeds, just as they did at the frolics when she was a girl. "The frost was at work at the windows, mar velous and cunning artist that frost was; etch ing with silent, mysterious fingers all sorts of landscapes and figures, which we should read in the morning with as much eager curiosity and interest, as travelers read this day, of old stones and ruined palaces, the hioroglyphics of Nineveh and Egypt. There would be suggestions of wondrous landscapes, of mountains and valleys and rivers; of gardens, too, fair as the hanging gardens of Babylon. There would be Westminister, Versailles, and St. Peter's, all done in a single night; there would be fountains of run ning waters and palms of India, and somewhere in the corners some of us would find the old barn and long well-pole at grandpa's. "Oh, I repeat it, they were brave times never to return, round that old kitchen fire, that hung in crimson flags over the birch logs, while we pared apples and counted seeds; and poor Charlie cracked walnuts poor Charlie 1 the stars look down on his lonely grave in California! But I see him now with the great brick on his lap, with his hummer going crack, crack, but somehow it didn t disturb one bit the sallies of fun and outbreaks of laughter round that tem- "plo. "And there was the clock the clock thut bo- " longed to my great-great aunt, and that ticked away the lives of five generations, in one corner, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, with the half moon on its face. What a history, what a biography that old clock was, set there in the kitchen corner; that had watched such bright hair turned to snow, such fair young foreheads grow dark and wrinkled under the burden of its years ! "And at last, when the hour-hand crept up to nine, grandpa would tuke his old-fushioned bible, and the laughing eye and merry dimples would settle into gravity, as he read those blessed words onco read over his cradle, and that would soon be read over his grave I And fol lowing this, came the prayer that seemed to draw all hearts nearer to tho gate of heaven I "bo when all this was over, grandpa would take the iron shovel and heap the grey ashes on the glowing cone of fire just as the years heap the ashes on the glowing hopes and joys of youth; and grandma would fold up her stock- ng, and stick the needles into the ball of yarn and say : Come, children, it is time for honest people to go abed.' " And going back there I shall miss them all; grandma's white cap, and grandpa's silvor hair, and tho cluster of bright young faces round the fire in the autumn evening; but if they hadn't torn down tho kitchen, I could have gone and sat by the bircj) fire and dreamed my old dreams and brought the in all back to me ; but now its all gone all gone even the old kitchen and fire place 1" and Mildred Race bowed her head on her hands and wept. " The old kitchen fireside!" the firesides where our grandfathers read, and our grandmothers knit, are growing less throughout the land. Urim. ghouls, in tho shape of stoves and furnaces, are everywhere taking their places, and the reign of andirons and birch wood hros is growing less every year. let blessed be the old kitchen and mantletree and jamb ! and blessed, too, the dreams that were buildcd out of those old birch-wood fires- fair palaces and pleasant gardens, and that all beautiful country, the Future, and which have all turned, like an old kitchen fire, to ashes! Tho End of a Prize Fighter. The following account is from an eye witness of the last round fight between Lilly and McCoy, in which the latter was killed: "As time was called, at the one hundred and twentieth round, McCoy was lilted from his second's knee, and stood on his feet for the last time. He was led slowly to the mark, and took his position a dying man but as erect, as dig nified, as game as ever. Lilly rushed in, threw him hard, and fell with his whole weight upon him, and remained upon the dying man until lifted off. On approaching him, (McCoy,) he was found to bo perfectly inanimato, and sank lifeless into his second's arms. Timo was called, but alas not for him. Poor follow, he was doomed never to hear a sound again till the challenge of the last trumpot shall pierce the portals of his ears, and summon him, with those who did foul murder on him, to a 'mark' from which there can be no dodging no escape. Ho had fought for two hours and forty minutes, receiving eighty-one heavy falls, with his antagonist on him, and bleeding, certainly, for two and a half hours. As soon as he was declared the vio-tor, Lilly jumped up, slapped his hands with an exclamation of joy, and amid the cheers of his circlo, sprang over tho rope of the ring. He was but littlo marked, and was not severely hurt. Poor McCoy, on being lifted from the ground, sank as limp as a rag in his Becond'i , nrms. A cry was made for tho doctor, and a movement in the mnss took place to give him air. I forced my way in the crowd, and looked at tho dying man. God grant that I may never see such another sight. Ho lay upon his back, one bruised, unseemly mass of incipient corruption, gasping for breath, and word wont in a hoarso whisper that ho was dead. Never shall I forget the talismanic horror of that expression."It is stated that Scnor Tassara, the Spanish Minister to this government, has notified Secretary Cass that his government has no other designs on Mexico than the protection of her oiti-sens residing there, and the enforcement of her claims for indemnity. Hor object is alleged to be similar to that of England and France. ' '